Some birds that mimic humans can only say a few words or phrases. For instance, crows in captivity often repeat words like ...

The wild parrots of San Francisco's Telegraph Hill had an unlikely champion in Mark Bittner, the busker-turned-caretaker ...

I am not a native of Southern California. Since moving here over a decade ago, I have heard stories of the infamous wild ...

Centuries before the rise of the Inca Empire, a much smaller kingdom on the central coast of Peru already had a sophisticated ...

Centuries before the Inca emerged, Amazonian parrots were carried alive across the Andes and raised in captivity on Peru's coast for their vibrant feathers.

Imagine a world without birds. No flittering of tiny chickadees on branches. No mocking call from a black raven overhead. No ...